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Let's Talk About Grep! 🔍

Grep is a long-standing tool that is essential to developers. It allows you to search files for matches against given regular expressions. Now, we are bringing grep to Code Climate to give teams a way to detect specific patterns in their code. The issues emitted by the grep engine are entirely configurable. You can use the grep engine to enforce specific style rules (e.g. don't define methods that start with set_ or get_), or to help burn-down existing constructs – as seen in this rule to deprecate use of octicons: